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New Adventures

March 18, 2012
New Adventures

CONNECTING THE DOTS     By ERIN OUTCALT mcp blogger   This week I anxiously look forward to celebrating my 28th birthday! Ok, I’m a big fat liar. I’m looking forward to celebrating my 38th birthday… kind of. I realize that age is just a number and that you are only as old as you feel but there is still…

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Dreaming of Biking the Betsie Valley Pathway

March 18, 2012
Dreaming of Biking the Betsie Valley Pathway

GET OFF THE COUCH — EXPLORE MICHIGAN     By JOAN H. YOUNG mcp blogger   We’ve had our first taste of really nice weather this week, and as I write this column, I’m thinking I might take the bike out for its first spin of the year this afternoon. I’ll probably just ride some back roads near home, but that…

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It takes a village

March 18, 2012
It takes a village

 They say it takes a village to raise a child. I am a true example of this saying. My parents divorced when I was very young and as many children do I lived with my mother and visited my father. This left my mother in the difficult position of being a single parent. My mother took her role of being…

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The Mickey Matson trailer

March 16, 2012
The Mickey Matson trailer

Click on the above poster to see the trailer for “Mickey Matson and the Copperhead Conspiracy,” filmed almost exclusively in Mason and Manistee counties, written and directed by Scottville’s own Harold Cronk of 10 West Studios, Manistee.

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Fishing with a view: Ludington photography

March 15, 2012
Fishing with a view: Ludington photography

    Bonnie Chaltron Harris of Custer submitted this photograph. Bonnie works at West Shore Community College and has been working on a blog where she creates a picture every day this year. She’s calling it her “365 Project.” “One of my goals for the project is to photograph ‘every day life’ around me,” Bonnie said. “This image falls into…

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